''The Slipper Episode'' (French: ''Le voyage imprévu'') is a 1935 French-Swiss

romantic comedy film Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Romantic comedy e ...

directed by

Jean de Limur Jean de Limur (13 November 1887, Vouhé, Charente-Maritime – 5 June 1976, Paris) was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. His works include ''La Garçonne (1936 film), La Garçonne'' (1936) and ''The Letter (1929 film), The Letter' ...

and starring

Betty Stockfeld Betty Stockfeld (15 January 190527 January 1966), often misspelled "Stockfield", was an Australian film actress. She appeared mostly in British and French films. Betty was the daughter of Sydney businessman Harry Hooper Stockfeld and Susan Eli ...

Roger Tréville Roger Tréville (17 November 1902, in Paris – 27 September 2005, in Beaumont-du-Périgord) was a French actor. He was born as Roger Troly; his parents, Georges Tréville (1875–1944) and Fanny Delisle (1881–1969), were also stage and film acto ...

and Claude Dauphin. It was based on a 1928 novel by

Tristan Bernard Tristan Bernard (7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer. Life He studied law, and after his military service, he started his career as the manager of an aluminium smelter. In the 1890s, ...

. It was shot at the

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and on location around

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and the

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. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

Serge Piménoff Serge Piménoff (1895–1960) was a Russian-born French art director. He designed the sets for the 1958 film ''Les Misérables''.Hayward p.232 Selected filmography * '' Nights of Princes'' (1930) * '' The Unknown Singer'' (1931) * '' Sailor's Song ...

. A British version '' Runaway Ladies'' was released in 1938. ''The Slipper Episode'' was partially censored in New York state, despite being similar in content to several Hollywood films.Goodman

Synopsis

A woman in

with her jealous husband remembers that she has left an item of clothing at her lover's house in

, which her husband is now demanding to see. She asks her friend Béatrice to pick it up and bring to her, but has a number of delays and a romantic encounter as she does so.

Cast

as Béatrice *

as Georges * Claude Dauphin as André Chabrolles *

Raymond Cordy Raymond Cordy (9 December 1898 – 23 April 1956) was a French film actor,Youngkin p.466 born Raymond Cordiaux. He appeared in over a hundred and thirty films during his career. Selected filmography * '' Little Lise'' (1930) - Un joueur de bill ...

as Le pêcheur *

Janine Guise Janine may refer to: People and characters * Janine (given name) Music * "Janine" (David Bowie song), a 1969 song by David Bowie * "Janine", a 1979 song by Trooper from the album '' Flying Colors'' * "Janine", a 1994 song by Soul Coughing f ...

as Laurence de Tourville *

Jean Tissier Jean Tissier (1896–1973) was a French stage, film and television actor.Goble p.440 A prolific actor, he had more than two hundred fifty appearances on screen during his career. He was married to the actress Georgette Tissier. Selected filmogr ...

as Jacques de Tourville *

Jean Dax Jean Dax (born Gontran-Théodore-Louis-Henri Willar; 17 September 1879 – 6 June 1962) was a French actor who appeared in more than 70 films during his career. He appeared in Maurice Tourneur's 1928 film '' The Crew''Waldman, p. 142 Selected fi ...

as Le directeur de l'hôtel * Maryanne as La dame de compagnie *

Émile Genevois Émile Genevois (1 January 1918 – 19 September 1962) was a French film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditi ...

as Le groom

References

Bibliography

* Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. ''Histoire du cinéma français: 1929-1934''. Pygmalion, 1986. * Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002.
Goodman, Ezra. "Notes for a Geography of Morals; In the Movies, Naughty and Nice Depend a Lot on Latitude". ''The New York Times'', 10 July 1938.
* Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

* 1935 films French comedy films 1935 comedy films 1930s French-language films French black-and-white films 1930s French films Films directed by Jean de Limur Pathé films Films shot in Switzerland Films set in Switzerland Films set in Paris Swiss black-and-white films Swiss comedy films Films scored by Roger Désormière Films scored by Jean Wiener Films shot at Cité Elgé Studios Films based on works by Tristan Bernard {{1930s-France-film-stub